Contents: Introduction. 1. Performing ecstasy, performing agony/Mallika Sarabhai. I. Erotic and devotional love in temple rituals: 2. Bathing beauties: cooling Krishna and Radha, igniting devotional desire/Cynthia Packert. 3. Krishna`s dance and devotion in the temples of seventeenth-century Bengal/Pika Ghosh. II. Rapture and discipline in music and dance: 4. The exalted body in North Indian music and dance/Pallavi Chakravarty. 5. Coming on Sam: when the end is the beginning/Joan L. Erdman. 6. Elephant mind: devotion and ecstasy in Asana practice/Sally Hess. III. Performance of love beyond confessional boundaries: 7. From Baghdad to Vrindavan: erotic and spiritual love in Qawwali/Scott Kugle. 8. The Truvada Bhavya role in the making of Hindu identity in Saurashtra/Jayanthi Thala. IV. The complexity of Hindu-Muslim synthesis: 9. Being careful with the Goddess: Yoginis in Persian and Arabic texts/Carl W. Ernst. 10. The path through her dark hair: hesitating Muslims and the Hindi lyric/Shantanu Phukan. Glossary. Index.